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1) Cockroach
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A tale set during a month in a bitter Montreal winter finds a would-be thief rescued from a suicide attempt and forced into counseling with a naïve therapist to whom he relates his childhood in a war-torn country and his troubled present life in a series of smoky émigré cafes.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Picking up his late father's arrangement with an anti-religious sect that performs secret burials for marginalized outcasts, an eccentric undertaker in 1970s Beirut confronts perspectives on death in the face of war."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Growing up in war-torn Beirut, Bassam and George, best friends since childhood, each confront a choice between staying in the city and consolidating power through crime, or seeking safety in exile abroad, alienated from everything they know.
6) Carnival
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Fly is a taxi driver in a crime-ridden apocalyptic metropolis. Raised in the circus, Fly sees everything, taking in all of the city's carnivalesque beauty and ugliness as he roves through its dizzying streets in his taxi. Fly is a reader, too, his tiny apartment filled with books. His best friend is Otto, a political activist who's in and out of jails and asylums. One night Fly meets Mary, a book-loving passenger with a domineering husband. So begins...